Bruce E. Schmutter is a life-long entrepreneur. He
started his first construction industry venture at the age of eighteen,
while living in his parents' garage. After a year, his first
company moved into a 5,000 sq. ft. loft and Bruce knew then that he was
on to something.
The company’s projects have ranged from child safety hardware
installation to custom-made Operating Room automatic doors and
interlocks for hospital laundry chutes. With in-house engineering,
design and prototype capabilities, expertise in sensors and automatic
controls, as well as compliance experience, the Windowman team is able
to upgrade most third-party equipment and produce custom solutions for
virtually every door- or window-related problem. Their network of
regulatory contacts helps to ensure that all repair and installation
work is performed in full compliance with relevant standards, which is
part of the reason Windowman Inc. is able to offer a five-year parts and
labor warranty. Windowman Inc. (USA) sets itself apart from other
service providers by offering innovative, customized solutions, which
are cost effective and fully integrated with regulatory compliance
requirements.
As President of Windowman Inc. (USA), Mr. Schmutter has focused most of
his attention during the last 27 years on the Health Care industry.
Windowman Inc. specializes in institutional window and door solutions.
They service and upgrade existing windows and doors, install new
equipment, performing site assessments and offer regulatory compliance
consulting (i.e. JCAHO, NFPA, AAADM, ADA). His company's
combination of technical, data management and code expertise allows
Windowman Inc. to help clients maximize the performance of existing
windows and doors while controlling maintenance and administrative
costs.
Bruce Schmutter, Windowman Inc.’s president is himself a certified
automatic door inspector and a proponent of using stringent regulatory
standards as a way of lowering service interruptions and long-term
maintenance costs. “Most automatic door failures or service calls
in the hospital environment can be attributed to the door hitting—or
being hit by—something or someone. Our experience has proven that
doors which are designed for their individual real-world conditions and
correctly configured as per ANSI/AAADM standards significantly reduce a
hospital’s liability exposure and result in considerable cost savings
over time.”, says Bruce.
Despite the pressures of working with some of the best-known hospitals
in the Tri-State area, Mr. Schmutter's entrepreneurial flame is still
burning strong. He is focused on the growing
information management and reporting requirements in the Health Care
Facilities Management function. Their flagship product is called
Total Track--it is designed to support Facilities and Engineering
departments in managing work orders and service history at individual
locations, preparing SOC Reports and tracking everything from inventory
parts to incoming phone messages. This state-of-the-art software gives
Windowman clients complete access to service history for all work
performed in their facilities, with robust sorting functions.
That, in turn, eliminates the need for constant trips to the “blue print
room” and allows quick service history lookup and fast deployment of the
right repair personnel (with needed parts) to the correct location.
True to the company’s overall philosophy, Total Track helps to assure
service quality and safety while driving down costs. The ability
to look up service histories and parts/tools information allows managers
to quickly deploy the right personnel & equipment to the right location.
Another, Data Tool product born out of Bruce's work in the Health
Care field is Code KM, a knowledge management application for hospital
administrators charged with the task of consolidating multiple sets of
regulatory codes and standards. With Code KM, searching and
comparing NFPA, JCAHO and other AHJ requirements gets quicker and
easier. Moreover, hospitals can use CODE KM and Total Track in
tandem to integrate their Planned Maintenance, Compliance and SOC
Reporting efforts.
Bruce and his Ten-year old son live in Brooklyn, NY.
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